Lone Star CASA Hosts Successful 3rd Annual Bunco & Bubbles Event to Benefit Children in Need

Lone Star CASA Hosts Successful 3rd Annual Bunco & Bubbles Event to Benefit Children in Need

Rockwall, TX (April 6, 2023) – On March 25th, Lone Star CASA hosted their highly anticipated 3rd Annual Bunco & Bubbles event at Hidden Creek in Heath, TX. The event was a great success, bringing together friends, supporters, and community members for a day filled with fun, food, and fundraising. The event featured a lively […]

Texas Health Resources Named a Best Company to Work For

Texas Health Resources Named a Best Company to Work For

ARLINGTON, TEXAS, April 4, 2023 – Texas Health Resources ranked No. 66 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For® list and is one of only three health systems to be recognized. This is the ninth consecutive year Texas Health has been recognized as one of the Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For®. “The […]

Carter BloodCare Community Events: Blood donors help neighbors in need

Carter BloodCare Community Events: Blood donors help neighbors in need

Rockwall, TX (March 17, 2023) – Carter BloodCare encourages Texans to make a lifesaving difference by donating blood in April. All blood types are needed, but O negative blood is currently at critical levels. This means less than one day’s supply is available to help patients who need transfusions due to vehicle accidents, surgeries, cancer […]

Flooding at local stable leaves horses standing in water, all hay and shavings gone

Flooding at local stable leaves horses standing in water, all hay and shavings gone

Stable owners, who moved onto the property just three weeks ago, request help  FORNEY, TX (Aug. 22, 2022) At Skyview Stables in Forney, 20 show and lesson horses were standing in 11″ of water this morning, and they have lost all shavings and hay due to the heavy rains and flooding. Grooms are on site, […]

Introducing Rockwall Farmers Co-op

Introducing Rockwall Farmers Co-op

ROCKWALL, TX – February 8, 2022 — Tate Farms, one of Rockwall’s last working family farms, has just launched the Rockwall Farmers Co-Op. As food shortages continue to grow, local producers now have the opportunity to step in and provide where they may not have had the chance in the past. Since farmers markets are […]

Christmas 2021 Holiday Happenings in Rockwall County

Christmas 2021 Holiday Happenings in Rockwall County

ROCKWALL, TX – November 30, 2021 — Christmas time is here! If you’re looking for things to do to celebrate the holiday season, Blue Ribbon News has you covered with our guide to local Christmas events happening around Rockwall County. If you have a local holiday event you’d like us to share, email editor@blueribbonnews.com, and […]

Community welcome at ribbon cutting, flag raising for Veteran Retreat Facility in Greenville

Community welcome at ribbon cutting, flag raising for Veteran Retreat Facility in Greenville

GREENVILLE, TX (Nov. 3, 2021) Veterans Outpost will host a ribbon cutting and flag raising ceremony from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 ar 1889 Mamie Road in Greenville. The event celebrates the groundbreaking of a Veteran Retreat Facility to accommodate PTSD therapy needs to Veterans and First Responders. In attendance will be […]

Adventures with the Editor: Yesterland Farm

Adventures with the Editor: Yesterland Farm

ROCKWALL, TX – October 26, 2021 — My wife Julie and I recently hosted our friends Hannah and Nathan from Arkansas and treated them to a super fun weekend full of fall festivities, good food, and of course lots of pumpkins! One of the places we took them is a huge farm out in Canton […]

Registration underway for i9 Sports recreational soccer, flag football, baseball, basketball

Registration underway for i9 Sports recreational soccer, flag football, baseball, basketball

ROCKWALL, TX (August 19, 2021) Fall season registration is underway now for i9 Sports recreational league soccer, flag football, baseball and basketball, serving Rockwall, Wylie and Forney. Open to boys and girls ages 3-14. The seven-week season opens Sept. 18, with practice and game on the same day, one day a week. Registration links are […]

YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Announces new executive leadership role and board committee dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion

YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas Announces new executive leadership role and board committee dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion

ROCKWALL, TX – September 9, 2020 — The YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas announced it has created a new executive leadership position to advance the Dallas Y’s efforts to achieve race and gender equity within the Y and in the greater Dallas community. Rodrigua Ross, nationally recognized as a leader on diversity and inclusion issues for […]

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